Education - Elementary

Backed by solid research, Writing Instruction That Works answers the following questions: What is writing instruction today and what can it be tomorrow? This up-to-date, comprehensive book identifies areas of concern for the ways that writing is being taught in today's secondary schools. The...

Fifty, 2-page activities to help students build skills in place value, computation and fluency, logic and critical thinking, solving word problems, interpreting data, and more. Students will quickly learn how to follow the routine and jumpstart their learning at the beginning of the day-or...

Teach reading and science simultaneously with this super set of exciting books that correlate with guided reading levels A-D. Inside the sturdy red tub, you'll find six copies of 24 photo-filled titles (6 level A titles, 6 level B titles, 6 level C titles,...

The effective and fun-filled way to teach spelling to elementary students The Spelling Teacher's Lesson-a-Day gives teachers 180 engaging and ready-to-use lessons-one for each day of the school year-that boost spelling skills in students grades 3-6. These lessons may be used as "sponge" or...

For the Good of the Earth and Sun is for teachers at all levels, especially for those teachers who feel anxious about introducing poetry to students. Georgia Heard offers a method of teaching poetry that respects the intelligence of students and teachers and that...

Comprehensive coverage of all aspects of assessment of young children from birth through the third grade Written from a developmental perspective, Assessment in Early Childhood Education provides current and future teachers alike with a comprehensive overview of all aspects of early childhood assessment, including...

Every grade level is designed with colorful, powerful images and readable text to make Social Studies more relevant than ever before.Author: McGraw-Hill EducationISBN-10: 0021524041ISBN-13: 9780021524044Publisher: MacMillan/McGraw-Hill School DivisionLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/27/2007Pages: 288Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.85lbsSize: 10.90h x 9.10w x 0.60d

"In a big and noisy city..." is an educational and entertaining book that teaches children the basics about the city safety and traffic light rules. It consists of two topics that emphasize the importance of safety while visiting or living in a large metropolitan...

The joyful path from rich read-aloud experiences toward supporting young readers' independence. When young readers join their voices together in shared reading, their literacy skills and confidence soar. Shared reading surrounds students with the language of stories and the delight of learning in community....

Everyone loves science, especially girls like Kaya!In Kaya's Magical Unicorn Slime Experiment by Crystal De Bouse, this colorful book is about Kaya, a girl who loves to use her imagination. She is creative, intelligent, and inquisitive.Kaya is a seven year old girl who loves...

"Profound, vital and correct. Hirsch highlights the essence of our American being and the radical changes in education necessary to sustain that essence. Concerned citizens, teachers, and parents take note! We ignore this book at our peril."-- Joel Klein, former Chancellor of New York...

American history middle school books for kids ages 11+ Help your middle school or high school child build proficiency in US history and AP us history with the activity-packed Mark Twain American History Workbook! American History Books are a great way for students to...

Mini-lessons, practice pages, assessments, and sample tests all in one book. Add some sparkle to your STAAR prep with 140 pages of reproducible including: literary, informational, persuasive, and procedural texts; graphic organizers for every unit; text-dependent comprehension questions, short-answer and multiple choice formats; and...

Provide effective academic vocabulary instruction for your grade 6 students with short daily vocabulary lessons! Use these 15-minute lessons to teach your 6th students 131 key academic vocabulary words that they are likely to encounter in their daily lessons. These are a few examples...

Daily writing prompts that help students build strong writing skills! Everything your students need to develop critical-thinking skills, vocabulary, writing fluency, creativity, and a love for writing itself is inside one book! The revised Giant Write Every Day: Daily Writing Prompts is filled with...

Give math routines a makeover in your classroom and make every minute count. Captivate your elementary students with these new, innovative, and ready-to-go mathematics routines! Trusted math expert John J. SanGiovanni details 20 classroom-proven practice routines to help you ignite student engagement, reinforce learning,...

Teach with optimum impact to foster deeper expressions of literacy Whether through direct instruction, guided instruction, peer-led and independent learning--every student deserves a great teacher, not by chance, but by design. In this companion to Visible Learning for Literacy, Fisher, Frey, and Hattie show...

Make the most of the hundred chart in your classroom! This collection of innovative, creative games and activities teach children number patterns and relationships, place value, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and more. Perfect for math centers and small-group instruction, these delightful activities meet core math...

A collection of 25 leveled passages with text-dependent comprehension questions that help students tackle increasingly complex texts and provide the academic rigor called for by the Common Core State Standards.- Each book features passages at various levels of text complexity.- Companion comprehension questions require...

More than 40 ready-to-use, skill-building practice pages with easy-to-follow directions and fun, motivating exercises! Perfect for classroom or at-home use, this exciting practice book provides invaluable reinforcement and practice with key addition and subtraction skills.Author: Scholastic Teaching ResourcesISBN-10: 1338798278ISBN-13: 9781338798272Publisher: Scholastic Teaching ResourcesLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

The Cookie Jar is a story of a boy named Khari, and his life lesson about honesty. Khari is a young boy learning life lessons through experiences with family and friends. The name Khari is of Arabic origin meaning "kingly" or "charitable." Khari wears...

Supporting teachers in the quest to help students learn as effectively and efficiently as possible, The Science of Learning translates 99 of the most important and influential studies on the topic of learning into accessible and easily digestible overviews. Building on the bestselling original...

Help elementary school students engage in the learning process and achieve their goals in the classroom with the effective and proven principles of teacher clarity. Clear communication between students and teachers is crucial for effective learning. When students understand the why and how of...

Transgender Students in Elementary School offers guidance to educators who want to provide a supportive school culture and climate for transgender and gender-expansive students. The book provides recommendations for creating learning environments that facilitate all students' sense of belonging and reduce the constraints inherent...

This comprehensive teaching resource helps fourth grade students master the conventions of standard English and boosts their vocabulary acquisition! Language Fundamentals has 207 pages of skill-based activities, including 25 review pages with multiple choice, constructed response, and open-ended questions to assess students' understanding and...

The World--Reference Maps & Forms contains 92 maps, evaluation forms, a crossword puzzle, a word search, and an answer key. The first section, The World, includes: an introduction of general facts about the world a list of 192 countries in the world a reference...

History Pockets-Explorers of North America, Grades 4-6, contains eleven discovery pockets. The introduction pocket gives an overview of exploration throughout North America. The other pockets feature ten famous explorers and their journeys. Each of the pockets contains: a reproducible pocket label a bookmark of...

This invaluable resource provides teachers with the tools they need to facilitate mathematical discourse and create opportunities for students to think constructively, communicate effectively, and increase mathematics proficiency. Authored by Barbara Blanke, this book will help teachers develop a new set of pedagogical skills...

The Common Core State Standards for Mathematics challenges students to become mathematical thinkers, not just mathematical "doers." In her new resource, professional developer Marian Small shows teachers how to uncomplicate the teaching of fractions by focusing on the most important fraction ideas that students...

Featuring an expanded introduction, this award-winning bestseller has been updated to link curriculum to the Common Core State Standards. This popular text shows how to apply Wineburg's highly acclaimed approach to teaching-- Reading Like a Historian--to middle and high school classrooms, increasing academic literacy...

Paula Lillard, director of a Montessori school ranging in age from 18 months to fifteen years, provides a clear and cogent introduction to the Montessori program for the elementary and later years. In detailed accounts, Lillard shows how children acquire the skills to answer...

Anyone who has taught writing knows that sometimes the hardest part about teaching writing is getting students to write at all. What we sometimes forget, Kelly Boswell reminds us, is that every writer is reluctant to write at some point. It's the conditions--not the...

Lesson Planning for Skills-Based Elementary Health Education is a highly practical resource for elementary health educators or general classroom teachers looking for innovative, tried-and-true ways to implement health education. The text offers effective skills-based learning activities, lessons, units, and assessments for your classroom that...

Guide your child to counting all the way up to 100 with Kids Learning Pages' "Let's Count To 100 Volume 1" Kids Learning Pages' "Let's Count To 100 Volume 1" is a great tool for instilling knowledge of numbers and their word counterparts in...

This comprehensive teaching resource helps fifth grade students master the conventions of standard English and boosts their vocabulary acquisition! Language Fundamentals has 207 pages of skill-based activities, including 23 review pages with multiple choice, constructed response, and open-ended questions to assess students' understanding and...

Today, more than ever, all students need a safe place to share their feelings and concerns with supportive peers and an attentive, caring adult. This unique, easy to implement, and highly effective discussion process is based on years of experience in teaching and leading...

How often do you hear, "The only parents who showed were the parents who didn't need to be here." But how often do you consider time of day, lack of child care, cost of dinner, transportation, lan-guage of the presentation, even relevance of the...

In Interactive Notebooks: Seasonal for fourth grade, students will complete hands-on activities about decomposing fractions, primary and secondary sources, state symbols, measuring angles, and much more. The Interactive Notebook series spans kindergarten to grade 5. Each 96-page book contains a guide for teachers who...

Lay the critical foundation for reading fluency with this engaging resource! Increasing Fluency with High Frequency Word Phrases offers 20 creative lessons that analyze high frequency practice to gain word recognition, expression, and fluency with comprehension questions to evaluate mastery. A fluency rubric and...

Build Grade 6 students' comprehension and critical-thinking skills and prepare them for standardized tests with high-interest nonfiction articles from TIME For Kids(R). This easy-to-implement resource includes accompanying document-based questions that focus on key strategies for breaking down informational text to help students build cross-curricular...

Jumpstart your early reading program with this big collection of motivating storybooks correlated with Guided Reading Level D. Inside this sturdy storage box, you'll find 100 books (5 copies of 20 titles) plus a 32-page teaching guide packed with lessons, tips, and reproducibles. Each...

100 ready-to-use graphic organizers that help elementary students learn Graphic organizers are a powerful metacognitive teaching and learning tool and this book features 100 graphic organizers for teachers in grades K-5--double the number of any other book on the market. These graphic organizers can...

Vasyl Sukhomlynsky's My Heart I Give to Children is an educational classic that has sold millions of copies in 30 languages. It describes Sukhomlynsky's ground-breaking work with thirty-one students in rural Ukraine, during an experimental preschool year and the subsequent four years of their...

No More Tears Math Super Math Books + Video Tutorials = Super Success in Math Twice the math at half the price A Must-Have Experience for 4th and 5th Graders Grade 4 is when many students begin a sharp decline in their math learning....

For primary-grade teachers who want to weave the traits into their writing program but are unsure where to begin, help has arrived This book contain just what they need to get started: trait-focused lessons, activities, reproducibles, scoring guides, conference comments, scored sample papers, children's...

Mastering phonics is fun with this collection of lively songs set to familiar tunes. Turn to this full-color resource to target and teach key phonemic elements including short vowels, long vowels, silent e, bossy r, blends, diagraphs, and more. Includes ready-to-go activities. A great...

"Tom Newkirk's call to appreciate the value of slow reading is both timely and important, especially in an era where skimming and click-and-go reading have become the norm for our students. Newkirk reminds us that our deepest reading pleasures are often found when we...

Finding the Rhythm in You is a delightful, inspiring story about a young girl named Gina who has stuttering difficulties and finds it hard to talk to and play with her classmates and participate in class. However, her teacher, Ms. Barnes, notices that she...

The Peace of Mind Core Curriculum for Grade 3 includes 32 step-by-step, weekly lessons integrating Mindfulness, Social Emotional Learning, Brain Science and Conflict Resolution practices for third grade students. Engaging lessons include a wide variety of mindfulness practices, stories, activities, pair-sharing and skits, supported...

Becoming an ECE - 101 Reasons Why I Love My Job is a book about why it was vital for me to work in an industry that acknowledges the importance of the formative years of children. My book attempts to inspire further generations of...